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06/11/2011
Label Artist Album Selection
Alligator Records Charlie Musselwhite The Well (L) Cook County Blues
Warner Bros. ZZ Top Tejas Arrested for Driving While Blind
Happy Birthday Frank Beard (ZZ Top's drummer), June 11, 1949
National Geographic Music Toubab Krewe TK2 (L) One Night Watkins
8:20
Capo / I.R.S Rory Gallagher Irish Tour 74 Walk on Hot Coals
Blue Hen Jim Campilongo
feat. Rob Burger, Jon Evans, Scott Amendola
Live at the duNord Cat Under a Car
8:35
RCA/Legacy Hot Tuna Keep On Truckin': The Very Best of Hot Tuna (comp) The Water Song
orig. on Burgers
Upcoming Show: Jorma Kaukonen & David Bromberg @ The Fillmore, 1805 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Thursday 6/23 8:00 PM
Warner Brothers Pat Metheny What It's All About (N) Pipeline
8:50
Concord Roselyn Williams &
Taj Mahal
Playing for Change 2 (CD & DVD) (var) (N) Gimme Shelter
ANTI- Mavis Staples You Are Not Alone (L) Wonderful Savior
Columbia Jeff Buckley So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley (comp) Hallelujah
9:00
Nonesuch Brad Mehldau Highway Rider (2CD) (L) John Boy
Blue Note Cassandra Wilson Silver Pony (L) Blackbird
Emarcy Meshell Ndegeocello The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams Lovely Lovely
feat. James Newton, flute
Varese Sarabande Sally Potter Orlando (sdrk)(var) A Change of Sex
Tzadik Carla Kihlstedt 2 Foot Yard Rooting for the Shy Librarian
Nonesuch Kronos Quartet
Kimmo Pohjonen, accordion
Samuli Kosminen, percussion / sampling
Uniko (N) Kamala
9:30
Omnium Boiled In Lead Antler Dance Nasrudin
Mantra / Beggars Group Natacha Atlas Something Dangerous Man's World (co-written by James Brown)
9:45
Kuker Bulgara Bear's Wedding (I) Kopanitza
agents 4 music Al Jawala Lost in Manele (I) Microbuzele
Asphalt Tango KAL KAL Duj Duj
10:00
Alula Nass Marrakech Sabil 'a 'Salaam An-a, An-ta
LGM Yemen Blues Yemen Blues (I) Min Kalbi
Upcoming Show: Yemen Blues @ The Independent, 628 Divisadero, San Francisco
Monday, August 1, Doors: 7:30 PM / Show: 8:00 PM, $15.00 - $50.00
10:20
In Rememberance of Dimi Mint Abba, 25 December 1958 - 4 June 2011
Guardian U.K. Obituary
World Circuit Khalifa Ould Eide & Dimi Mint Abba (Mauritania) Moorish Music From Mauritania (I)
  • Waidalal Waidalal
  • Mauritania My Beloved Country
  • 10:30
    Nonesuch Youssou N'Dour Egypt Touba - Daru Salaam
    Upcoming Show: Youssou N'Dour and Angélique Kidjo, Friday, June 17 @ 8:00 PM
    @ the Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway, Oakland, $80.00 | $60.00 | $40.00 | $25.00
    Nonesuch Youssou N'Dour Nothing's In Vain (Coono Du Reer) Sagal Ko (Honor Her)
    10:45
    Mango Angélique Kidjo Logozo Malaïka
    Knitting Factory Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80 From Africa With Fury: Rise (N) Rise
    BC Beth Custer Respect As A Religion Empire of the United States
    11:05
    Gaza Corner features news and music from the Middle East and North Africa as events unfold
    Each week a new article is posted in the Gaza Corner section of tangents.com
    This week: Syrian troops lay siege to northern town
    Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan Slams Damascus
    Syrians pour onto Turkish border
    "Soldiers killed all the young men in the village" say fleeing Syrians
    This week's Featured Artist: Kinan Azmeh, Syrian clarinetist
    Incognito Kinan Azmeh &
    Dinuk Wijeratne
    Complex Stories, Simple Sounds (I)
  • Ibn Arabi's Postlude
  • The Learning Curve
  • end of Gaza Corner
    11:30
    Upcoming Show: Afghani singer Ustad Farida Mahwash and rubâb master Homayoun Sakhi and the Sakhi Ensemble
    @ Zellerbach Playhouse in Berkeley, Thu, Jun 16, 8 PM & Sat, Jun 18, 8 PM, $44 +
    Accords Croises Ustad Mahwash Ghazals Afghans
    Secular and Sacred Poems of Love (I)
    Dokhtar e Bagh (Girl of the Garden)
    11:45
    Smithsonian Folkways Homayoun Sakhi In the Footsteps of Babur: Musical Encounters From the Lands of the Mughals (N) Alap on the Afghan rubâb: Raga Bhupali
    11:56
    Accords Croises Ustad Mahwash & Ensemble Kaboul Ghazals Afghans
    Secular and Sacred Poems of Love (I)
    Lalo Lalo (Lullabye)
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